Tahir Anwar – Performing Umrah A StepStep Workshop
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Sallallahu alaihi wasallam is his last and final
Messenger.
Alhamdulillah,
for those of you that are here in
person and then, of course, everyone that happens
to be online,
it's an immense
pleasure, honor
to be amongst those who, get to be
chosen to go
to the House of Allah
to make umrah
and to visit the Beloved
in Madinah Munawwara. This
is a very powerful trip
and,
it you know, our lives are filled with
a lot of
busyness,
duniya world,
importance in,
how we dress, what we look like, what
we drive, where we live, etcetera, etcetera,
the material,
and
this trip
is all about the spiritual.
It's all about
Allah.
It's all about his messenger.
It's all about the stories. It's all about
the sacrifices.
And
most importantly, to be able to come back
with that in our lives
and
give
greater importance
to the spirituality
versus
the material world that we happen to be
living in,
of which there's a lot of people put
great importance in
because that's that's the reality around us, right,
the glamour of the dunya as the Quran
calls it, right, and so
Umrah is highly, highly spiritual. One of the
things that was mentioned is before you go,
call everyone,
make sure that you, especially family, especially people
that we've
had differences with,
and call them,
ask for forgiveness,
seek their forgiveness, seek their blessings, seek their
duas,
and ultimately,
you know, make amends with individuals
because,
a, it may not come back,
which would be the most awesome deal in
the world,
and, b,
when we come back, we want to come
back clean.
We want to come back clean. We want
to come back
rejuvenated.
We want to come back with that spiritual
energy.
Again, I'll mention this really quickly for the
people that might have, again, just joined at
11 o'clock.
One of the most important things that was
mentioned was the Nusuk app, n u s
u k.
Please make sure that you download it. You
will need your visa you will need your
passport number. You will need your visa number
in order for you to register for the
actual app.
I just say this as a matter of
fact. I just got back a little over
a week ago. You do not need a
permit for an umrah.
You do need a permit to get inside
the Rolda.
I'll cover some logistics
around that
in a little while,
but,
the appoint actually, the appointments are open for
the entire month of January at this point
for the brothers,
which is really awesome because in December,
the appointments opened up, like, 2 days in
advance. So
I might have checked a 100, 200
times before we managed to get some appointments.
It's actually open until February 4th.
Yes, the day you're arriving from what I
understand or somewhere around there. So, in any
case,
if you give it a day or 2,
it may actually or or a week or
so, it may open up more.
I would suggest this, Praveen, specifically for the
group
is if all of you can designate one
time
and a message goes out when you're making
the booking, say, let's all go at this
time,
so everyone can go at the same time
versus go individually.
It'll make the time,
go by a little easier because there is
a decent amount of waiting to be done,
again, depending on what time and when you
get there.
They have, they when you do the bookings,
it shows green, orange, and red depending on
the amount of people that are signing up.
Honestly, it makes no difference. You could get
there an hour before your appointment. You're still
gonna get in. You could get there about
a half an hour after. You're still gonna
get in, but they will check the day,
and they will check the time. And as
previously mentioned, they will make sure that the
app is actually flashing.
So, a screenshot
is not going to,
work.
Okay.
Umrah.
What is Umrah? Umrah is the lesser pilgrimage.
It's the pilgrimage that the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam taught us
to express,
our gratitude to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to ensure that we fulfill the right of
the
the House of Allah
It can be
done 24 hours a day. It can be
done 365
days a year.
It's
it's
within certain days of Hajj.
But other than that, the umrah can be
done year round at any given time.
It is an act of Ibadah. It is
an act of worship,
but at the same time,
it's sometimes within the moment.
We're so caught up with the logistics of
doing everything that
we may not feel the sacredness
of that or
the sinking in within that moment,
but it's definitely
entering into our hearts and into our souls
because we are within an act of and
worship.
Before I get started with the slides, and
I will in a minute,
many people will have moments of reflection
at different moments within their journey.
It may be
earlier on in the journey. It may be
halfway through your journey. It may be towards
the tail end of your journey. It may
actually even happen when you're on your flight
back
and you can't fall asleep on the plane.
You're wide awake. You have nothing to do
and you're just reflecting.
And
everyone has a reflection of some sort.
Everyone has a reflection of some sort.
I have to be honest,
my greatest
reflection
last week
was,
it was just surreal seeing the amount of
people there,
you know, struggling with money, struggling with time,
struggling with all kinds of things in order
to be able to get there, right? People
are taking time off from work. People are
making payments. There's all kinds of struggles that
we make to get there.
And my greatest, you know, sort of moment
was that
God is real,
Allah is real, and Islam is real.
There's no doubt about it.
That's it.
Allah is Allah because we're we live in
a very
atheistic society. People don't want to talk about
God.
If you talk about God, it's not awesome.
Right? It's a blue state.
And so we're reading. We're we're, you know,
we're absorbing all of that. It may or
may not make a difference, but at the
end, you know, it's there. You know, it's
on it's on your mind. It's in your
heart.
But just for me, it was just sitting
in front of the Kaaba one fine night
and just seeing the people make the lawf.
I was just sitting there,
and I just and the Kaaba being so
majestic and so high
and everyone in white, for the most part,
in the that
Allah is real.
He exists,
and Islam is real.
And
I'm just humbled
and grateful
to be a part of this group of
individuals.
And I pray to Allah
that me and my progeny remain on this
until
the final day,
and that if that means, and if that
means that challenges are going to come my
way or our way as a community,
then there's no one greater than the prophet
Muhammad
who faced challenges.
People I the biggest question that many people
have is what duas do I need to
learn
for Hajj and Umrah specifically?
And the answer is
none.
None.
The only one that is prescribed
at one point or at two points during
the Tawaf
is That's it.
But, as we're making the Tawaf specifically and
as we're making the Sahih
to constantly be engaged
in some form of
zikr
is not a requirement,
but it's crucial
in order to make
our tawaf
and our sai'i
meaningful.
Meaningful. Otherwise, you could literally be at FaceTiming
while you're making tawaf
and your tawaf is still valid.
It's just not going to get you the
same amount of spirituality.
So find some form of dhikr. A lot
of times, people ask me and say, what
should I do? What should I do? You
know, what should I get? I'll actually share
the no. Praveen, if you can remind me
and I'll actually remind myself, there's a set
of small booklets called how to perform we've
you know, you've seen this. How to perform
Hajj, how to perform Umrah, and how to
perform ziara. These are 3 small booklets.
I'll send you the PDF so you can
share it with the group and people can
download it to their phones.
Parvez Baid mentioned,
reminded us a little while ago that when
in Madinah, we should be making salawat on
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, I'll come
to this at the tail end, but set
a goal for yourself
that
every day while I'm there, I'm going to
send
a 100 salawat on the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam.
500 salawat on the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and after or before every namaz, after before
every prayer,
pull out your prayer bead, whatever it is
that you're using to count and send salutations
on the prophet
they can be any salutations. The salutation that
we recite in salah, Durud Ibrahim
or any other salawat for that matter. And
if you can't, sallallahu alaihi wasallam in and
of itself is salawat and the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam. But
there's a number of salawat compiled
through the hadith of the prophet, sasilam. There's
a book called salawat and salaam that I
you don't have to buy this. I generally
recommend it for those people who want to
have it. This is not just for your
journey to Madinah. This is even for here
on Fridays and on Mubarak days. We pull
it out and send salawat and the prophet,
sasilam.
But the the the book that I use
that's my book is completely coming apart at
this point is Accepted Whispers.
It's my absolutely
favorite book of duas.
Almost every Dua
of the Quran
and the Hadith of the prophet
found in all the Hadith traditions are compiled
in this one book.
The Arabic
English transliteration,
for people who can't read Arabic fluently,
the English translation
as well, for those of you who may
not be able to read Arabic, but at
least go through the English.
Right? There there isn't as our teachers would
remind us, there's not a thing in the
world that that we need in our lives,
in this life, in the hereafter that the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam hasn't already asked
for.
And so what good you know, what better
thing to find a place where we can
find all of those things and just
go through them, right? Read through them.
You will you can use this during your
tawaf. You can use this during your you
can use this on the plane. You can
use this as you're sitting in front of
the Kaaba in the Haram. You can use
this while you're sitting in Madinah and so
on and so forth. Extremely powerful book. I
would urge all of you to, get a
copy.
Okay, moving on.
What should you have? I know Pravez Bay
covered a few things.
You won't need an haram from here, so
don't take 1. Don't put it in your
bag. You're all going to for those of
you that are going to Madinah first, sorry.
You can get your harams there. A 7
b test b
just makes easier for you to count how
to you know, how many tawafs you've done.
A small I'm gonna go through this really
quickly. A small bag, you know, just a
PE bag. You know, you all know what
a PE bag is with shoulder straps,
so you can throw
your prayer rugs or your shoes or sandals
inside there and just carry it on your
back if it makes it easier.
Slippers.
Brothers and sisters,
sisters,
while we are in the state of ihram
that's coming up in the next slide. While
we are in the state of ihram,
sisters, you have absolutely no requirements
whatsoever
on what you have to wear. You can
wear what you want.
Anything,
any color,
no requirements
at all. Brothers, we have certain requirements.
Amongst those requirements is that we have footwear
in which this top part of the foot
is exposed.
So,
you know, flip flop, flip flop type of
sandals that you will want to wear specifically
during ihram. Get something just, you know, something
a little nice because you'll be wearing it
for a few moments.
A waist pouch for those of you that
may want one to care. When you are
in Ihram, brothers, we don't have any pockets.
So, where do you store your phone? Where
do you store your glasses when you're making
wudu? Where do you store your wallet?
A pouch is a good place to have
that.
An Ihram belt. By the way,
in terms of a belt for your ihram,
you can use any belt. The belt you're
wearing right now that has a ton of
stitching on it
can be used
for your ihram as well. You don't have
to buy specifically an ihram belt. Some people
do. That's fine.
Madinah is cold. You previously, I mentioned this,
but Madinah Munawarra is cold.
Take take a decent jacket.
Take a beanie. Take some socks
because you will be utilizing those. Something someone
recently taught me, if you have any extra
sweaters or any extra jackets,
throw them in your luggage, take them with
you. Every morning, when you go to the
Haram, take 1 or 2 with you, find
someone who doesn't have a jacket, find someone
who has a chadar on them, just a
sheet on them and doesn't have a jacket,
give it to them. Okay? So, just something
someone taught me very recently. If you wear
glasses, extra prescription glasses, medications, yada yada yada.
Sisters, you wanna take a scissor.
There's no barbers for sisters.
You will have to be cutting each other's
hair upon the completion of your umrah, so
make sure you carry scissors with you.
Again, if you have a Quran that you
normally use, please make sure that you carry
that with you.
A little distorted there.
Sharpie.
Who uses notebooks these days? No one uses
notebooks. The notes section in your phone is
what everyone uses.
These are just things that'll make your life
a little easier
and make you cool if you have it.
A portable weighing scale in case you plan
to do shopping and bring stuff back
and make sure that your cell phones
are are working when you're there. Okay. Moving
on.
Before you go on any journey, pray 2
rakaz and make dua. This is not just
journey of Umrah or journey of Hajj. You're
getting on a journey to drive to LA.
You're getting on a journey to
go to Chicago. You're getting on a journey
to fly
abroad. Wherever it is, any journey that you
go on, pray 2 rakaz.
By the way, we'll share these slides with
you, so you don't have to take pictures.
Also,
give some salaba.
Any the way to make your journey easy
is just by being generous on your journey.
Just give salakah. It just it salakah wards
off difficulty.
Salakah wards off,
you know, evil. If there's something to come
in your path, you've given salakah, Allah will
take care of you, things will open up.
So learn to give salakah. Learn to be
generous.
Don't always be looking to save money as
some people do.
There's some people who like to bargain. Now,
again, I'm not going to tell you what
to do, but a few years ago, I
was in Umrah with my father and he
said, Bita, from here onwards, don't ever bargain
in Mecca and Medina. I've never bargained from
that day onwards. Now, that could be very
difficult because Saudi markets are like Pakistan markets.
Right? So, if this is 50 riyals, they're
gonna tell you a 100.
Okay? So, you have to have the heart
at that point,
but that's your personal decision.
You're supporting
I'm not saying don't bargain,
but don't always be looking for a deal.
You're helping out a Muslim economy. You're helping
out a Muslim.
A few extra dollars, you know, if in
your entire journey, you spend a few extra
dollars, 50, a $100 extra, it's not gonna
be the end of the world for you,
but it could mean so much for the
person that you are, you know, you're there
with. So, Khair, in a in any case,
I need to I need to move on.
Okay. Mecca or Medina, depend you're most of
the group, this case, is going to Medina
first.
Medina first, no requirements. You'll be flying into
Medina the moment you board, you know, from
here, as you board your plane,
be ready for that journey, spiritual
preparation for that journey,
you know, to meet the prophet
there's so much I can say, but I
won't, but we are meeting
the
best creation
of Allah
We
are meeting the Sayyid,
the Nabi Muhammad
and when we get there and when we
give him our salaam,
he will return his salaam back to us
inshallah.
And so, we want this moment to be
special
which we also want that from here onwards,
from today onwards, in preparation for this journey,
start fulfilling all the sunnahs of the Nabi
Sallalahu Salam. You can't claim to love the
prophet and not fulfill his sunnah.
You can't claim to love the prophet alaihis
salatu wa sallalahu salam and say it's just
a sunnah.
You can't claim to love the prophet and
say I'm gonna, you know, change
when I get there. It doesn't work that
way. Right? We have to make that intention
and action before we get there. For for
anyone that may be going to Makkah first,
you have to be in the state of
Iham
prior to your arrival at Jiddeh Airport.
So, make sure that you're putting on your
Ihram at the airport
before,
you know, whichever airport it is
prior to flying into,
Jidda. Putting on an Ihram on the airplane
is not a good, you know, not a
good choice.
If you are going to Makkah first, make
sure that your ihram
is in your handbag
and not in your,
checked in luggage because you'll need it you'll
need it to put on the ihram.
Yeah. And and you have to be in
this yes. You have to be in the
state of ihram prior to your arrival at
Jidda airport.
You can't say, I'm gonna get to Jidda
and then put on my ihram.
You cannot say that I'm gonna get to
Makkah and then go to Masjid Aisha and
then put on my Haram and come back.
It doesn't work that way. You have to
be in the state of Haram prior to
your arrival at Jidda airport for those individuals
who have intention to go to Makkah upon
their arrival
at Jiddah airport. So please do not,
forget that.
Okay.
I'll skip this slide. The Nabi sallallahu alaihi
wasallam has designated certain areas. These are known
as mitaat.
That prior to your entering into these areas,
you have to be in the state of
Ihram.
For those of you, for those of us
that are
going from Madinah, who are arriving into Madinah
first and then going,
which is the first one,
happens to be the mikat.
Now, historically,
people would get in their taxis or buses,
go to Abiara Ali. There's a big masjid
there. They would take a shower, put on
their ihram, pray their 2 rakas, make the
intention,
and then continue their journey to Mecca. Doesn't
happen like that anymore. You're in a bus.
You're on a train. Right? So, you put
on your ihram in your hotels in Madinah.
You pray your 2 rakas in the Haram
or in your hotel,
and if you want, you can go ahead
and make the intention and say and
then get in the taxi, get in the
bus, and it just carries on and at
some point, you enter into the Haram boundary
from there onwards.
Stop me in case you remember anything. Please
remind me. I yeah, please.
Okay. Brothers,
simply by wearing 2 pieces of white cloth,
nothing happens.
I could wear 2 pieces of white cloth
and walk around in Pleasanton. People would just
think I'm an angel.
I'm an embodiment of Jesus and nothing really
happens. Okay? I'm just
when you put on the ihram
and you make the intention
and say,
then you have entered into the state
of.
I say this because you could potentially put
on your
clothing
or sisters, you can just be in your
regular clothes
at Istanbul Airport,
but you don't necessarily
enter into Ihram until you make the intention,
and you may wait for 2 hours before
you actually make the intention.
Make sense to you? Right? Because you don't
want to you don't want the restrictions of
ihram to come unto you. Right? And the
restrictions of ihram are no scent, no perfume,
after using the bathroom, being mindful that you
don't use the soap, the scented soap. Right?
The most common mistake that people make,
you can't trim your nails, you can't cut
your hair, and so on and so forth.
The state of the
Haram
is a state of a faqir,
is the state of a beggar
in front of Allah
So it's that you're coming in in extremely
humbled,
in a humble state, in humble clothing,
as a beggar would, right, begging, seeking, beseeching,
supplicating
to the master
That's what ihram
is about. And so keep that in mind.
So, again, you know, wherever you're putting on
your ihram, sisters, again, your regular clothes, whatever
it is that you wear, just becomes your
ihram
as you say that pray to the 2
rakas that you pray upon putting on the
ihram is a sunnah. It's not a requirement.
You make the intention. The intention is not
some dua in Arabic, specifically. It's just an
intention. O Allah, I intend to perform this
Umrah. Please make it easy for me and
accept it from me.
And then saying, Labbeik, at that moment, you
have entered into the state of Ihram and
all the restrictions of Ihram are now binding
upon you.
Questions at the end? Please write them down.
And then again, the talbiyyah can you know,
generally
historically, the talbiyyah was, the scholars would remind
us, was never done in a group fashion,
but if people do so, that's fine, but
keep the talbiyah on your tongue.
Basically, you're saying,
I'm here, O Allah. I'm here. I'm present,
O Allah. I'm present.
Right? I'm I'm coming to you, oh Allah.
I'm coming to your sacred house to perform
the sacred Ibadah, oh Allah. That's what that's
what we've been taught by the Nabi Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam. So that's entering into the
state
of ihram
and making saying the talbiyah.
Yeah. Again, I'm gonna make this really quick.
You know, brothers, it's 2 sheets by the
way, 2 sheets of white cloth, no undergarments.
So no underwear, no t shirts. It's just
2 sheets of white cloth. Sisters, once again,
you can wear what you want, any
color, whatever you want. Okay?
2 sheets of white cloth,
fold one over, fold it over, you put
a belt, and then you just put the
top on. It's as simple as that. Okay?
Very, very easy. Very, very simple.
If you happen to be on the heavier
side and you choose to stitch
through
your bottom
piece of your ihram, it's actually
but allowed.
Right? So just for the record. Right? Because
if your haram opens up and your gets
revealed, and is not just your immediate private
parts. Anything above your knees,
right, is your
If you if you fear that that may
get exposed, that is haram. And so if
you choose to stitch through
the bottom half, it's makru, but
it's a lot,
and I did say using any belt is
permissible.
I know that many of you are going
to Madinah first, but in this presentation, I've
covered Madinah at the very end, and so
that's how we'll do it. We'll just go
through this really, really quick. You'll get to
your hotels. You'll check-in. You'll eventually make your
way to the to
the Kaaba to make your Umrah.
The Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says that
when you see the Kaaba for the first
time, whatever du'a you make is an accepted
du'a. Imam Abu Hanifa Rahmatullahi, alayhi, says
that when you see the Kaaba for the
first time, your du'a should be, oh, Allah,
whatever
supplication, whatever du'a I make after this du'a,
accept it from me. Whether it's the first
time in your life, and it may be
the first time in your life for many,
and whether it's the first time in any
particular journey.
Again, one of the adab of seeing the
Kaaba for the first time is trying to
see it in its entirety.
It can be very difficult with the challenges
of trying to walk in and so on
and so forth, but if you are going
with a group, it is kind of manageable
because you'll have someone in front of you
and they just tell everyone to kinda, hey,
guys, just keep your gaze down, and then
eventually get to a point where you'll be
able to see the entire Kaaba, may step
to a side, be able to see it.
When you see the Kaaba, you say Allahu
Akbar.
Right? We praise Allah
mention the greatness
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Say Allahu Akbar,
and then in that moment, you make dua.
You make dua. Raise your hands and make
dua. Should be a heartfelt dua. Take your
time in making that dua.
It is a moment in which
it's a moment that just cannot be described
in words to say the least. But but
know that in your journey, there's a few
places
where your duas are accepted. All your duas
are accepted guaranteed.
Guaranteed.
The first sight of the Kaaba is one
of them.
But you have to have You
have to have conviction in Allah
Okay.
Your tawaf begins at the black stone.
Okay. I'm gonna kind of use this corner
of this table, assuming that this is kind
of sort of the black stone.
Black stones on the Kaaba. There's a green
light on the wall,
that'll indicate
where the black stone is.
As you walk further across, you have the
door of the Kaaba. In front of it,
you have the Maqam Ibrahim.
K? So your tawaf sort of begins at
the black stone,
and then as you walk around, you have
the half enclosed circle that is known as
the Hadeem.
The Hadeem for many years was actually closed.
People couldn't get in, but the Hadeem does
open up a few times a day for
people to be able to get in these
days.
I I I wasn't even trying one day
after fajr. I just happened to get in
somehow. And be a little patient.
Don't be in a real hurry. Okay? With
any any there's a lot of rush.
But, you know, I was able to get
inside the hadith. If you're the the area
inside the hadith, the semicircular
wall is considered to be
a portion of the Kaaba,
which means that if you get inside the
Hatim, it says if you're inside the Kaaba.
And if you're inside the Kaaba, whatever du'a
you make is an accepted du'a. Now, if
you can't get inside the Hakim, you don't
have to push, you don't have to regret,
you don't have to fight, you're in the
Kaaba.
It's all sacred.
Not not not just the masjid. The city
is sacred.
So, you could be in your hotels.
While you're in your hotels, don't be wasting
your time on your TikTok videos.
Right? You could be in your hotels.
Use that as a time of it's not
just the Haram, the Masjid that is sacred.
You're within the sacred precinct.
It's all
sacred.
Right? So keep that. That should be our
perspective as well. Okay.
Beginning the Umrah.
Beginning the umrah, you come around to the
black stone.
The brothers, there's 2 things that we have
to do in our talaf.
The first one is we have to expose
our right shoulder when we're making all 7
circuits and only 7 circuits. So if you
have your ihram around you like this, you
simply let it down and you pull it
through underneath your right armpit so your right
shoulder gets exposed.
That will happen for all 7 circuits,
and then you will you were supposed to
walk like a brave warrior in the first
three circuits.
Any tawaf which is followed by a sai'i
from safa to Marwa,
you make,
you walk like a brave warrior in the
first three circuits. Can be a little tough
with the amount of people there, but inshallah
somehow manageable to the best of your ability.
You'll have scholars with you, so they'll guide
you inshallah.
You get to the black stone.
You stand in line with the black stone
anywhere, anywhere inside the Haram. It could be
on the first floor, second floor, roof, wherever
it is.
That's how you begin here. So, when you
begin your salah, you say, Allahu Akbar. In
the case of Tawaf, you say, Bismillahi Allahu
Akbar. Then, you have to kiss the black
stone. You kiss the black stone at the
beginning
of every circuit and at the end of
the last, so a total of 8 times.
Best way to kiss the black stone is
is the Arabic word, palms facing out.
Kiss, and you begin your tawaf.
So two things to begin your tawaf.
And kiss.
Now you begin your tawaf.
As you begin your tawaf, the of the
Nabi alayhi salatu wasalam is that from the
black stone
all the way until you pass the door
of the Kaaba, you say
From there onwards all the way around, you
can say what you want.
Recite any dua, recite Quran,
dua in Arabic, dua in English, dua in
your own language, dua for dunya, dua for.
The last thing you should be doing is
doing selfies, pictures, FaceTiming, etcetera.
You're in Ibadah, you're in worship. Put that
into perspective.
As you come around, the corner which is
right before
the black stone is known as Rukn Yamani.
The sunnah of the Prophet
if he
was close to the Kaaba, he would touch
it with both hands or with his right
hand only.
That's not possible with the amount of people,
you'll be far away.
Don't do anything. You'll see some people waving
at it. Don't wave, there's no waving, you
simply walk by.
Unless you're touching it, you're not doing anything.
You're simply walking by. But from the Ruqan
Yamani
all the way back to the black stone,
it's sunnah to say
all the way from Ruqan Yamani all the
way to the black stone. You come to
the black stone, you face the black stone,
you have to kiss the black stone. You
kiss the black stone, arms facing out,
kiss.
Circuit. Number 1 done.
And then
all the way to the door of the
Kaaba. And then from there onwards, any dhikr
that you wanna make all the way until
Rukh An Yamani.
When you get to Rukh An Yamani, you
won't do anything because you're not close to
the Kaaba.
All the way. Keep on reciting it as
many times as you can until you get
to the black stone.
2nd circuit done. Beginning of the third
one, kiss all the way until the door
of the Kaaba, and then so you'll continue.
Similarly, you'll finish 7 circuits. At the end
of the last, you stand again in line
with the black stone.
Done. 7 circuits, done. Okay.
Now you need to go and make from
Safa to Marwa.
But before you go and make there's a
few things that you need to do. You
need to pray 2 rakas. 2 rakas. There's
a few things that you need to do.
You need to pray 2 rakahs.
2 rakahs.
The sunnah of the prophet
was to pray those 2 rakahs behind Maqam
Ibrahim.
Immediately behind Maqam Ibrahim,
you're causing yourself an inconvenience, you're causing an
inconvenience to everyone that's making tawaf.
Go back by about a 100 feet. There's
enough room there. You can pray your 2
rakas there. If you're going as a group,
generally, I like to recommend to not even
go behind Maqam Ibrahim. Just go for keep
on keep going on your tawaf and kind
of go a little further out on that
end. There's a lot of room there. The
group can come together and pray your 2
rakas.
Raise your hands and make du'a.
So, this entire journey is about dua.
This entire journey is about asking Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
After that, the sunnah of the prophet was
to drink Zamzam water. There's a very specific
dua that is preferred to to recite when
we drink zamzam.
And then you will go so you're done
with that. You can breathe, you can relax,
you can sit for a few minutes, there's
no hurry. By the way, during the 7
circuits,
at any point, if you're tired and you
want to sit down, you can sit down.
During the 7 circuits,
let's just I'm just saying this to put
things in. If you're hungry, assume someone's hungry,
like, on their 3rd circuit all of a
sudden
and has this
ardent desire to
get a shawarma,
and they left and ate and came back,
the tawaf is still valid.
You don't have to start over, just for
the record. Okay? I just
no one does that, don't do that, but
I'm just explaining
that that's so there's no specific rules per
se around that.
Wudu is a requirement for Tawaf.
If you break your wudu in your 1st,
2nd, 3rd, or 4th circuit, you have to
start over from number 1.
If you break your wudu in the 5th,
6th, or 7th circuit, you make wudu, you
come back, and you start from where you
left off.
Okay? Majority verse so if you break your
Wudu in circuit 1, 2, 3, or 4,
make Wudu, start over with number 1. If
you break your Wudu in 5, 6, or
7,
make Wudu, come back, and,
continue from where you left off.
You prayed your 2 rakas, you drank your
zamzam,
now you make your way to Safa in
Marwa.
This is a nice walkway.
Tawaf is generally easy.
Is
a long walk.
So for those of you that may have
issues with your legs or the bottom of
your feet or heels or whatever it is,
make sure that you
if you must wear footwear during the tawaf
or during the sa'ih, it's allowed.
It's completely allowed.
Just make sure out of adab
to carry an extra clean pair of footwear
with you that you only wear inside the
haram, and you don't wear it outside. Just
out of the sanctity of the Haram. The
walk between safa and Marwa is a long
one. So if you have issues with the
bottom of your feet or your heels, it's
gonna be, you know, it's it's it can,
it can take a little toll on you.
But all in the love of Allah,
all in the worship of Allah
I'd rather be able to make and get
calluses on my feet than not and get
no calluses on my feet, as painful as
they are, if you know what I'm saying.
Right? And may Allah protect us all from
all forms of diseases and difficulties and worries.
But Riz Baid did say something earlier. It
was all about perspective.
Right?
2 people will travel on the same journey
on the way there, on the way back.
We'll go through everything together, but we'll have
2 completely different experiences,
and it's all about your attitude, as Farbir
Baha'i said. It's all about perspective.
If I have time, I'll share you a
story just from last week, but not yet.
You get to suffer.
There's really nothing to be done. Say,
If you know the verse,
you recite it, but other than that, there's
nothing to be done. You begin your journey
towards Marwa.
There's an area closer to Safa
with the green lights, Hajirah
jogged, ran
as she was searching for water.
The sisters will not run, jog, because you're
in the presence of men, so you simply
keep walking. The brothers, to the best of
some people sprint.
Hajjara didn't sprint.
Hajjara just kind of ran because it was
a valley, and so as she was going
into the valley, she just came in.
And so you just kind
of jog a little. As the green light
area ends, you continue your walk towards Marwa.
When you arrive at Marwa, every time from
there onwards that you arrive at Marwa and
Safa, Marwa and Safa, Marwa,
it's a time to make dua.
The prophet
made
dua. Raise your hands for a brief minute,
ask Allah for something.
The most powerful dua in the world,
most powerful dua of the Quran is, Rubana
Atina fidunya hasala wa fil akhratih hasala waqinna
adabanna. Allah grants us goodness in this life
and the hereafter. Protect us from the fire
of *. If you don't have time to
do anything, just recite that.
You're asking Allah for all the goodness of
this life, all the goodness of the hereafter,
and protection from the fire of *. What
what more what more can we ask Allah
for? It only takes a few seconds.
Is 1. Is
2. Is
3.
Is 4.
Is 5. Is 6, and
is
7. So each
each trip is considered 1. It's not a
round trip that's considered 1. Otherwise, you'll be
doing it 14 times.
Yeah. So it's only 1, 2, 3.
At that point, you're done. You need to
come out of your ihram. The way to
come out of your ihram is get a
haircut.
So brothers,
the sunnah of the Nabi alaihis salatu wasalam
was to shave your head.
Right? So
you'll find barbers everywhere. If you have the
strength and the ability,
and you have no reason to not get
your head shaved, get it shaved. The prophet
made du'a forgiveness 3 times for those people
who had their head shaved, once for the
one who had their head
their hair trimmed. Right? But the trim should
be from the entire head and not just
small portions here and there.
I recently found out in some ethnic cultures
that
if you're not going for Hajj,
like, the first bald head that you should
get should be a Hajj and should not
be an Umrah.
Yeah. Some it's very, you know culturally, we
got some really crazy things going on in
our lives. And so I had a family
that, like like, you know, just did not
want to get their head shaved at all.
Right? They were like, nope. We're saving our
head shaved for Hajj.
I said, okay, do what you got. Sisters,
this is what Pravez Mahay was reminding me
of. Right? Sisters,
you're still in eham.
Said, the only way you can come out
of eham is get that haircut. Now, sisters,
you just simply bunch your hair together
and it they say you wrap it around
your finger,
and whatever it is, you just chop it
off. Cut it off. Right?
About an inch, so you just kinda get
it together and just
but you can't cut your own hair
because you're in a haram.
And don't ask another sister to do it
for you because she may also be in
a haram.
You cannot do it. That's right.
Yes.
Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I got
an answer for you.
Yeah. Calm down.
You know, there's usually
there's at least one couple that's with you
somewhere,
or your husband has done his tawaf and
he got his haircut. He will cut his
wife's haircut,
and then the sister who already has her
haircut by her husband can open up a
barbershop in her room.
Cam. It's okay to wait until you get
By the way, that's the the other thing.
You don't have to get your haircut immediately.
Your haircut can happen after 4 or 5
hours. Let's assume you got your umrah done
at 4 o'clock in the morning. Fajr is
at 5. You don't have to go and
get your haircut immediately.
You can wait until Fajr, pray Fajr, you
can go have breakfast,
and then you're like, okay, now let me
but of course since you are in ihram,
no washing hands with soap, you know, things
of that nature. So
you'll always find someone, another sister in the
group or wherever, even if you're traveling alone,
you'll find someone and say, hey, look, you
know, or you knock knock the door knock
the room next door
and you tell them, hey, is there a
sister here who's not in a haram who
can cupnob? You know, you'll figure it out.
Don't worry. Take a chill pill. It's okay.
It's just not the end of the world.
So that is doing the haircut. Thank you
for the slides and moving on. Okay. Awesome.
I need to move on. Okay. So
you're out of Haram?
What do you do in Makkah?
By the way, in the Haram in Makkah,
there's no tahiyatul masjid.
The tahiyyah of the Haram is tawaf.
So you go in if you can. You
don't have to put on any Haram for
that. You just you're wearing your regular clothes.
You walk inside the Haram.
In blue, of course,
you get in line with the black stone.
Kiss, and 7 circuits around the Kaaba
till the door of the Kaaba, any dua
all the way until rukan Yamani, from the
rukan Yamani, all the way to the black
stone,
Kiss the black stone. 7 circuits, pray turakars,
you're done. If in the middle of those
7 circuits the adhan is called, you continue
your tawaf. In the middle of those 7
circuits, prayer happens, you just stop, do your
prayer, and continue from there. There's no there's
no rules around it. You know what I'm
saying? But you should try to make tawaf
at least one set of tawaf.
One tawaf is 7 circuits. Try to do
one tawaf at least per day.
Someone wants to do another umrah.
You wanna do another umrah?
Then
you put on your or your clothing in
your hotel. This is the easiest way to
do it.
Then
you go
downstairs outside and you find a taxi.
The taxi, you tell them.
You want a return trip from.
You go to.
You pray 2 rakas.
That's sunnah, not a requirement.
And then
you make the intention for umrah.
You say.
You come back to the haram, and you
make 7 circuits around the Kaaba,
Saif 7 times, haircut, and you've done your
second umrah.
Now,
most common question I get is,
can I make an umrah
for a relative of mine or Tawaf for
a relative of mine who has passed away?
Yes. You can.
Can I make an umrah or Tawaf for
someone who is alive?
Yes. You can.
Absolutely.
Can I combine
multiple
people in 1 umrah or 1 tawaf?
Generally,
you make 1 tawaf
for a person, 1 umrah for a person,
but if you did not have the ability
to perform multiple tawafs or umras for whatever
reason and you
combined a few people in your umrah,
they will all get the salawab of it
as well.
That is the generosity of Allah
But, generally, you do 1,
per person.
Recite as much Quran as you can. I
was just with a young boy this morning
at 10 o'clock
whose family planned it such
that he finished his first
of the Quran in the
Haram. A few years ago, I was in
the Haram
where a young in 2018, Thanksgiving
2018,
a young boy at the age of 17
at the time
had his last lesson, his last sabak of
memorizing the Quran in the mataf.
So you all of you have 1 month.
Start your Quran recitation now
so that when you get there, either in
Mecca or Madinah, wherever and whenever is convenient
for you, you can make your khatam of
the Quran and make dua to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
Right? So, again, this journey is about ibadah
and worship.
Okay. Thank you, Munir. Thank you.
Women,
if you are
menstruating,
can you enter into the state of ihram?
Yes. You can.
The long and short of this entire mas
Allah and this stipulation
is that
you must enter ihram
when you pass the mikah. That's a requirement.
Purity is not a requirement for entering into
a Haram. The 2 rakas that you pray
before the Haram is a sunnah, is not
a requirement.
Okay? So, you enter into a Haram. You
cannot enter the Haram until you are pure
to make your tawaf and your sai.
So you have to wait until you're pure
to make your tawaf and your sai. Assuming
that all the days that you're gonna be
in Mecca, you're not gonna become pure, what
do you do?
In the state of hayl, in the state
of menstruation,
on your period, you go inside the Haram,
you make 7 circuits around the Kaaba, you
go from Safa to Marwa,
complete your Umrah, get your haircut, and give
the dum of 1 goat. Not a large
animal, a small animal. The large animal is
a requirement in Hajj. That's we're not there.
So just keep that in mind. This is
the long and short of the the entire
Mas'Allan stipulation.
Yeah. It's almost impossible. People going, you know,
people going for 3, 4 days. How do
you manage? You know, it's it's difficult. Not
everyone can get on pills. It's just, you
know, and so that that's why I said
the long and short of all of this.
Okay.
Ziyarah
of the Nabi Muhammad
before you go,
just do 2 things.
For a moment, just sit in your hotel
room, on the bus, wherever you are, and
contemplate.
Where am I going? Who am I about
to meet? Who am I gonna give salaam
to? And I could go on forever, but
just
As you're walking to the haram, give sadaqa.
That's from the sunnah.
Give sadaqa.
The best people to give sadaqa to are
the cleaners, you know, just people in the
heart. Give some sadaqa.
You for salaam, for the brothers, it can
be done all throughout the day. You enter
through Babu Salam. By the way, you don't
enter straight into Babu Salam anymore. You have
to go all the way out and about
and around
and into these fenced areas,
and then you will enter Babu Salam, just
for the record for those of you that
have not been there in a few years.
Babu Salam, all the way through. You walk
all the way till the end. You will
come to the area
where there's 3 grills, 1 metal, 1, 2,
and 3. The middle one is where the
Nabi alayhis salatu wasalam, Abu Bakr radiAllahu an
and Umar radiAllahu an are.
You give your and they the qibla is
behind you, so the Nabi alayhi salatu wasalam
is resting
here
facing the qibla.
Abu Bakr
is one step behind him,
again facing the qibla, and Umar
is one step behind him facing the qibla.
So when we are giving our salaam,
we first give our salaam to the Nabi
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Do it with your heart, Do it with
your mind present. Don't be rattling at least
the first time you go, don't be rattling
off names off a phone. This is your
personal salaam to the Nabi sallam.
Then to Abu Bakr
There's no specific words.
O,
right? My salaam to you, and
then same to Umar
and then you will walk away. The sisters
do not have access to this area.
The sisters will be in the back area.
Generally,
we have found our teachers telling us, reminding
us
that at the very least,
without any difference of opinion whatsoever,
that from inside the Haram anywhere
in Madinah, you can give your salaam to
the Nabi
So as Farvaz Bhaibai was mentioning and reminding
a few moments ago that reading off all
your friends' names and the lists of people,
from anywhere inside the Haram, give your salaam.
Though for some people,
there's a certain,
sukoon,
satisfaction
in when they can't spend so much time
on the inside to do it from the
outside where they can see the green dome,
Right? Because there's a certain we have a
certain connection
with the Nabi alayhis salatu wa salaam and
the green Ottoman dome. So standing there, and
you can give your salaam from there as
well, and there's no harm in doing so.
Women,
your times are different than the men for
going inside the.
Just again, very quick logistics.
In the front of the mosque, and you're
staying at the Pullman, so it's really convenient
for you. So you'll just come straight from
the Pullman,
and, there's just lines.
Everyone will line up. There's multiple lines. It
makes no difference which line you get in,
And then there's a there's an, officer who
will come and check your phones to make
sure your apps are flashing. They have to
be flashing.
And then you go inside and you get
seated in one of 6 areas. This is
all outside.
So, again, if you're going at night, if
your appointments are night, it's going to be
chilly.
So make sure you got your beanies and
your jackets with you, your shawls or whatever
it is, socks, whatever. You'll be seated outside
in large areas
and then 1 by 1, each group gets
to go inside to give inside the rouda,
and you actually don't last year, you would
go in from
Bab Abu Bakr, which is in line with
Babu Salam.
They've changed it now. You're actually going from
the back,
babun nisa, you're entering inside, and then you're
walking towards the rahulah.
So you'll figure this out. They're very kind.
Remember,
it's it is in their best interest to
facilitate this umrah, this salaam, everything for you.
Be nice to people,
give your sadaqa,
make du'a. Allah will make that journey easy
for you. Very simple. When you get inside
the Rawdah, don't be in a real hurry.
Just calm down. Just
find some presence of heart and mind.
Right, and then
find a space
in me. I tell you,
one thing that has worked
for me, I can't say it works for
everyone,
I did not I didn't start my prayers
immediately, I just stood. Because I was in
Jannah at that point and one of the
things, one of the adab of getting inside
the Roda, if you do, is making du'a
to Allah and say, you Allah, you have
promised that once someone enters paradise, you don't
kick anyone out. I've entered paradise. You can't
kick me out from here.
It's a du'a. It's from the, you know,
the ulama mentioned this.
And so, I waited. I just stood and
made du'a and then I, you know, daddy
long legs, I started jumping over people as
they were praying
to find the empty spot.
Before you know it, I was standing in
the first row of the right next to
the resting place of the Nabi Asas. So,
little bit of patience,
little bit of sadaqah, little bit of kindness,
gratitude.
Right? There's people who will sit there and
complain about how the Saudis manage things,
and then there's people who will sit there
and say, hello, I'm just grateful I'm here.
Be the second.
Okay. My time is up, so I'm going
to
move on.
Very simple.
Praying inside the haram in Mecca.
Your prayers
in Mecca should be inside the haram.
Each prayer is equivalent in savab, in reward,
to 100,000
prayers.
Now some people are thinking, does this mean
that a 100,000 prayers that I owe are
made up? No. No. No. No. No. You
get the savab, inshallah.
Ask Allah for ease. In the mosque of
the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, there's narrations
of 1,000, 5,050,000.
So your 4th salawat should be inside the
haram,
and that's all I'm going to say. Again,
many of you will have your teachers with
you and so on and so forth. The
mazarat,
the sightseeing, as we may call it in
Mecca, in Madinah,
Masjid Ubah, 1st masjid ever built in Islam,
Masjid Tibla Tayn, where the tibla was changed,
the battle, the site of the Battle of
Uhud.
If you're going by yourself and you're not
going with a group,
read a little about it before you go
so that when you get there,
you can feel the presence. You can feel
at least you know what happened. It's not
just a place where you came to take
pictures
and check-in to your social media sites and
say, I'm here. You know what I'm saying?
Like, hashtag
masjidquba,
hashtag 1st masjidinIslam,
hashtag your brother is present, hashtag, you know.
We're not there for hashtags.
Right? Like, what was this really all about?
And then, of course, leaving Madinah with some
level of sorrow of separation. May Allah
make it easy for all of us.
I'll take do I have time for questions,
by about 5, 7 minutes, inshallah? Okay. I
just want to share one thing.
When when when,
when people these days in this modern
land go for
umrah,
they send out, like, a message.
Here's a Google Doc. Send me your duas
so I can read
there's no tradition of that. Like, if anyone
would have thought of that, our pious predecessors
generations ago would have thought of that
and would have left a notebook outside their
masjid, the biggest scholars, and said, I'm going
for a ummrah, write down your duas. No.
That's not how it works. So if you're
gonna do that, don't.
The adab
is that the seeker
should go to the one. I will go
to Asif Bay. Say, Asif Bay, I'll I'll
call him. I'll send him a message. He
said, Asif Bay, I know you're going for
Umrah. Make dua for me. Then he puts
my but for Asif Bay to send out
an email and say, no. Asif Bay can
send out an email saying, I'm going for
Umrah. That's fine. Please forgive me. Remember me.
Etcetera etcetera. But Asif Bay is not gonna
send out a Google I'm sorry. I'm putting
you on the spot like this.
Asif and by the way, Parviz Bay talked
about the first hudge where he met Asif
Bay. Actually, I was on the Hajj too,
so that's where we all met. That's where
we first got to know each other. But
in any case,
Asif Bay's not gonna send out a link
to a Google Doc and say, I'm going
for umrah. Send me your duas.
That's not the way to do it.
People ask you to make du'a, you write
their name down, you definitely make du'a for
them.
Make du'a for yourselves, for the dunya, for
the akhirah, for your children, for your progenies
that you will never see,
you know, for everything, for your for your
health, for your wealth, just everything. Right? Put
it all together. And, again, duas from the
hadith,
in accepted whispers, will help you put together
what kind of a dua you should be
making for yourself.
What kind of a sometimes we don't even
know what to ask Allah for, or we've
run out of things to ask Allah for.
Right? And so keeping that in mind. That's
the end of what I have to say.
I just wanna share a story, just a
really quick story. I'm gonna take your questions
after this.
Again, I was in Armana last week and,
we checked into our hotel in Medina,
and, you know, some people opt for double
rooms, triple rooms, quad, and things like that.
So we had 2 groups of individuals, both
had double rooms,
But there were 4 beds in the room.
Now, we weren't going tothere was not 4
people in the room. There was only 2
people in the room, but there was 4
beds in each room.
That's how the hotels had it set up.
It was more convenient for them to give
us whatever rooms they had immediately available, and
so
so when I gave the key to one
group of 2, I said, hey, there's 4
beds in your room. In case you want
the 2 beds removed, just let me know.
Perspective, they said, mom, Tahir. I'm in Medina.
I don't even complain about it. Let the
bed stay. Guess what? If the beds are
there, I have place to put my luggage
and my clothes.
Perspective.
Another group of 2 enter into their room
and I get a text message
that says,
this hotel is crappy,
you've put us in dorms,
perspective.
It's all about perspective.
So I had a brother, a young man
in Medina who lost his luggage.
I spent
4 hours with him that morning. We went
to the we went to the Masjid together,
we went to give our salaam together, we
prayed our duhah together, we went to
the graveyard
together, we came back for breakfast. He didn't
mention anything. I found the bag and I
sent a text message on the group and
I said, whose bag is this? And so
the young man responded back and said, hey,
that's my bag. So when I met him
again, I said, hey, man, like, you lost
your bag. You were with me for 4
hours in the morning. You didn't even mention
it. He goes, you know, I just lost
a bag. What's the big deal?
Right? I just lost a bag, but I,
like,
how could I be thinking about
my bag?
Well, thank you. Well, I'm here.
Right? I just so I got a text
message 2 days ago that from the hotel
rooms that we checked out at I'm sorry,
I got stories.
Last one, last one, last one I know
for
someone forgot their iPad.
They didn't even care. They didn't even write
to me and say, hey, Mamta, I forgot
my iPad. Is there any way to find
it? They were just happy they got to
go to Mecca and Medina.
I'll just buy another iPad. Right? Perspectives.
Perspectives.
Sorry. I'm done. I'm gonna try to keep
my answers to a minimum. Questions. Yes.
Yes. Yes. JazakAllah here. Thank you. Thank you,
Muneer. Thank you for Viswai.
I'll repeat the question. Go ahead.
What's the question?
Okay.
And the answer to your question, very the
question is, can I wear a face mask
or not, considering that if I wear a
face mask, it's it's, you know, I the
face must be exposed?
The first
thing I wanna say is stop watching all
those videos.
They'll make you confused.
Secondly,
during pandemic,
if you have a face mask, you do
not have to give a dump. You don't
have to give any penalty. If you feel
if you feel that you must wear a
mask on your face, then so be it.
Yes. 2nd question.
Yeah.
Yeah. Don't worry about all that. And you
don't touch, Ram because it has That is
just first of all,
there's no trick to there's no requirement to
get close to the Kaaba at any time.
If you
who doesn't want to get close to the
Kaaba? Just don't do it during your talaf
because during your talaf, you're busy with your
talaf.
When you're you have 3, 4 days there.
When When you're done with your Tawaf, you're
back in your regular clothes, you showered, you
rested, then one fine day, go close to
the Kaaba and touch the Kaaba and make
du'a. There's no harm that
resolves you of all your problems of being
in ihram and so on and so forth.
By the way, the best time to be
in the Mataaf area is between, like, 8
and 10 in the morning,
just for the record. Everyone's out at breakfast.
Yes.
Question.
No. No. It's just I'm being logistic. Logistic.
Someone just told me this morning that I
told them to make their umrah at 8
o'clock in the morning and they said it
was very easy. We got done with the
whole thing in in an hour. Right? So,
again, now, it may not work for you.
You may say, Imam Taha was the worst
thing that ever happened to me. I can't
help you.
But I will tell you.
Perspective,
perspective,
perspective.
Allah opens the doors of His divine mercy
through these things. Yes.
No problem.
Yes. Can you take your 4 year old
child with you to Riyadh al Jannah on
your permit? Yes. You can. Which gate did
he enter?
The lines are all outside in the front
of the Haram. There's no gate.
And then you mentioned that if you gave
it there, you have to do the set
of tawaf. Is that considered
Good question.
So when you are making your regular tawaf
outside of your umrah, are you considered to
be in the state of ihram? No. You're
not. You're you're not in ihram. You're simply
making tawaf. So, yes, you can touch the
Kaaba and so on and so forth. Yes.
Yeah. By the way, getting inside the Ralda
is a little tough
in terms of the whole permitting,
but they're kind of nice as well. Don't
get me wrong. You know what I'm saying?
It's in their best interest to get people
through.
No. No. I understand, but, like, you know,
there's people who have sometimes been without a
permit
and they're with a wheelchair or a child
doesn't have a permit or an elderly person
doesn't have a permit.
They'll let you go through. Preparing
your mind and heart for this journey,
allowing yourself
to realize
where you're going
and why you're going,
and this this that you're going to the
sacred house of Allah
Right? We're going as Muslims, we are going
to the most sacred place on the face
of this earth,
and to be able
to acknowledge that, to realize that,
that this is where I'm going, what do
I need to do?
I can't start becoming a I don't I'm
not gonna, when I get to Mecca, turn
the switch on and get all my 5
prayers in all of a sudden. It needs
to start now.
Right? Showing our desire to Allah subhanahu.
When we go to Madinah specifically,
we'll where the entire mosque of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam is the,
was about the size of the city of
Madinah. At any given time, anywhere inside the
Haram, you're probably gonna be praying inside the
house of a Sahabi, and you don't even
know this. Now, if it was all marked,
we would be fighting for it.
Right? So, rightfully so, it's probably not marked.
But, again, you're probably praying inside the house
of a Sahabi. Like, we're we're in the
like,
you know, planning happened here, revelation
happened here. Right? The Nabi, alaihis salatu wasalam
sat there, the Nabi, alaihis salatu wasalam walked
those streets, the Nabi, alaihis salatu wasalam had
happy moments, sad moments, and all so that's
the preparation,
in a nutshell. We have a sister in
the back. Go ahead. Love the question.
Most powerful question.
Yes, we should make du'a for the entire
ummah as the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam did.
You Allah, bring ease upon the entire ummah.
And if you want to mention certain nationalities,
groups
specifically, then so be it. As far as
making du'a generally for people who have asked
you to make du'a, yes, absolutely. You know,
You Allah, whoever has asked me to make
the the general
what we've learned from our teachers is they
would say, You Allah, whoever asked me, whoever
wrote to me,
whoever desired to ask me to make dua
that was not able to tell ask me,
or
whoever it is that I should be making
dua for because of what they owe me
and I haven't been able to make dua
for them, grantees or even, you know, fulfill
their so multiple categories of individual. One last
okay. Two last questions and then I'll close
because I know you have other things. Yes.
Porobani.haramain.com.
Yeah. Every there's an app for everything.
I think that's the website, but the website
is called haramain.comharamain.com.
There's a link to Korbani there. The people
that manage that entire,
website are people that I know. They're reliable,
they're trustworthy, and they can take care of
you, dumb for you in Mecca. Dumb by
the way, 2 things. Dumb must happen in
Mecca. So you can't say I'm gonna have
a goat sacrificed in America or India or
wherever. Okay? Dumb for
now,
just because you made a mistake doesn't necessarily
mean you owe a goat. Okay? So don't
assume the worst. The goat the penalty of
a goat, the dumb of a goat is
of the highest caliber by making a massive
mistake.
Right? Something like, you know,
taking a shower and shampooing your entire head.
Okay. So simply washing your hands with soap,
that's 5 reals.
Okay. You decided to comb your hair, 5
reals. You forgot and you took your you're
on your way to the Haram and you're
in your Ihram and you feel like you're
smelling and you pull out your cologne and
you're like you know what I'm saying? That's
just 5 reals. That's 5 or 7 reals.
Yeah. So okay. Last question.
Yeah. By the way, you know, some people
are like, I have to stand there,
turn around,
poke my arm. Like, I ain't got time
for that. And a lot of people
No. No. No. You you could okay. Okay.
Watch. Just watch. You could simply just do
this.
Even with one hand. Just
turn a little,
and keep walking. You're good. That's all. Even
that is valid, just for the record. So
you don't have to, like, formally turn around,
put both of your arms out hands out,
arms out. Then
would make istilam with his stick. Yeah. That's
also from the sunnah. Of course, we can't
do that. But, yeah, if you're just simply
making thought, you're like,
That's it. You just keep on going. You're
you're because you're in the mosque, you're generally
barefoot.
Yeah. But of course, if you choose to
wear footwear, just make sure it's footwear for
inside. Sisters, you have it easy. You could
just simply buy thick socks.
Right? You could buy thick socks with like
rubber,
bottoms and you're good to go. Brothers, we're
the ones that have it a little difficult,
specifically during
Umrah. Other than that, you could be wearing
your socks and making tawaf as well, so
no harm to that. I will yes, young
lady.
Yeah.
Or you can buy it from, like, Amazon
or Etsy.
Yeah. Simple.
Yeah. Inshallah. I'm gonna stop there. I know
that I've I've gone over my time, so
I apologize. But
for all of you that are going, may
Allah make your journey easy and blessed, insha'Allah.
Please keep me and my family in your
du'as, insha'Allah, and you will be in line.